At 04:36 PM 6/4/2005, Lea de Groot wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jun 2005 18:07:48 -0500, Matt Thommes wrote:
> For instance, I always escape a dash (-) with –    --- when
> using it in a normal sentence.

Thats interesting - I escape such entities as ampersands (&) and double
quotes ("), but not things such as hyphens.


Lea,

– is not a hyphen, it's an en-dash.

See for instance http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm

Also:
The Trouble With EM 'n EN (and Other Shady Characters)
by Peter K. Sheerin
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/emen/

Paul


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